Island of Stability: Stable Coins Keep Attracting Big-League Investors🌴Stable coins have been attracting more mainstream players lately, and big league investments — from the likes of Andreessen Horowitz and Peter Thiel — have started pouring in. Here are some of the largest advancement made in in the past months, andwhy it might have attracted such major investors.-via CoinTelegraph

How Does MakerDao’s 20% Charitable Giving Principle Make Sense?🙏🏻This piece zooms-in on the newest piece of the puzzle — MakerDAO’s initiative to match 20% of the fees burned in the Dai Credit System(DCS), and making those funds available as a decentralized public charity fund, which MKR token holders will control through their votes.-via MakerDAO

How to assess stablecoins📺Nevin Freeman, CEO of Reserve Protocol, presenting at Stanford’s Crypto Devcon on How to tell whether a peg will or won’t break (how to assess a stablecoin.)-via Reserve

Mastercard Patents a Method to Manage Cryptocurrency “Fractional Reserves”💳Credit card giant Mastercard (NYSE: MA) was granted a patent for a “Method and system for linkage of blockchain-based assets to fiat currency accounts.” A disclosure from the US Patent and Trademark Office explains it relates specifically to the use of centralized accounts to manage fractional reserves of fiat and blockchain currency updated via transaction messages corresponding to fiat- and blockchain-based payment transactions.- via Bitcoin.com